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Phone, Tech Group Asks FCC
To Ease Its Rules on Networks

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Stephanie N. Mehta Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 7, 1998 11:20 a.m. ET

An alliance of local telephone carriers and high-technology companies Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission to adopt guidelines that would make it easier to deploy high-speed Internet services in their territories.

The group asked the FCC to ease regulations that force the Baby Bell telephone companies to resell their high-speed networks to competitors at discounts, according to people familiar with the situation. The local phone companies contend that expensive, high-speed upgrades for their networks should...